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Olsen, Trude Høgvold; Glad, Tone; Filstad, Cathrine – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2018
Purpose: This paper aims to investigate whether the formal and informal learning patterns of community health-care nurses changed in the wake of a reform that altered their work by introducing new patient groups, and to explore whether conditions in the new workplaces facilitated or impeded shifts in learning patterns. Design/methodology/approach:…
Descriptors: Nurses, Community Health Services, Informal Education, Workplace Learning
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Pustejovsky, James E. – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2013
Single-case designs (SCDs) are a class of research methods for evaluating intervention effects by taking repeated measurements of an outcome over time on a single case, both before and after the deliberate introduction of a treatment. SCDs are used heavily in fields such as special education, school psychology, social work, and applied behavior…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Behavior Change, Meta Analysis, Observation
Nolan, J. Dennis; Pence, Connie – J Consult Clin Psychol, 1970
Over the course of eight months of almost continuous contact, relatively normal speaking patterns were generated. At a one year follow up, the subject's speech was indistinguishable from that of her classmates. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Child Development
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Jena, S. P. K. – International Journal of Rehabilitation Research, 1995
A boy with severe mental retardation was unresponsive to his environment and spent 80% of his day body-rocking. Stereotyped body-rocking was greatly reduced via differential reinforcement of incompatible responding (DRI), physical restraint, and reprimand. (JDD)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Children
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Sisson, L. A. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1992
A new approach to behavioral control with individuals having both visual impairments and multiple disabilities stresses the use of positive intervention strategies, bases treatment on functional assessments of challenging responses, and emphasizes broad changes in the lifestyles of individuals. Case examples illustrate applications. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Case Studies
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Pound, Ronald E.; Roberts, R. Jack – School Counselor, 1978
Behavioral self-management techniques offer counselors a viable consulting procedure for use within a classroom structure in which teachers and supportive staff are constantly being confronted with attending behavior problems. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Classroom Techniques
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Mindell, J. A.; And Others – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1996
The use of sleep scheduling and a daytime routine for the treatment of circadian rhythm disorder was found helpful in decreasing a blind 2-year old's nighttime wake periods and daytime sleepiness. (DB)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Blindness
Bernal, Guillermo; Wisocki, Patricia A. – 1975
The relative effects of imagerial covert rehearsal with attentional shifts and the use of an independent reinforcing agent in a covert reinforcement therapy were compared. A 17-year-old female student, requesting treatment for a snake phobia, served as the subject. The phobia was measured along four dimensions: behavioral approaches to a live…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies
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Meyers, Andrew; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1976
A covert self-instructional program was used to reduce the frequency of a hospitalized chronic schizophrenic's inappropriate verbalizations. A marked reduction in the frequency of the target behavior accompanied the treatment intervention, and improved verbal behavior was directly responsible for the decision to discharge the subject from the…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Contingency Management
Umbreit, John – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps, 1996
This case study applied functional assessment methods to problem behavior of an adult male with severe mental retardation within the natural home setting. The problem behaviors did not occur when the subject was able to participate in a more preferred activity regardless of whether he chose the day activity program or it was chosen for him. (DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Albin, Richard W.; And Others – Research in Developmental Disabilities, 1995
This case study focused on an adult with severe disabilities and multiple problem behaviors fitting a pattern of behavioral escalation. Functional assessment indicated that use of rule statements by the teacher was related to occurrence and escalation of problem behaviors. Elimination of rule statements was an effective instructional intervention…
Descriptors: Adults, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems
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Eriksson, Ann-Sofie; de Chateau, P. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1992
This case study of a toddler with autism whose parents had videotaped her development from birth showed that the child's behavior and development were essentially normal for the first year but that she then became withdrawn in only a few months. It is suggested that early communicative screening tests might have identified the child's earliest…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies
Liberman, Robert – Amer J Orthopsychiat, 1970
A discussion of the key to success in family therapy as found in the change in interpersonal behavior within the family. (JM)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Behavior Problems, Case Studies
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Saposnek, Donald T.; Watson, Luke S., Jr. – Behavior Therapy, 1974
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Children
Myrick, Robert D. – Personnel Guidance J, 1970
Case study, in which counselor discusses strategies for change with child's teacher, rather than directly with pupil. Resulting improved behavior is indication of how deviant children can be helped within the school program. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies, Consultants
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